rqtwteye

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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"hobbyist GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) such that people spend more time reading/watching reviews/shopping/trading gear than they do actually doing their hobbies. " That's a huge problem for photographers and
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Are there any hobbies/activities that aren't constantly moving upmarket? I am having trouble thinking of any.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Guilty may be the wrong word but you should be aware that you got lucky. Like a lot of "self-made" men who got lucky and then tell others that they could achieve the same if only they worked as hard. I hate articles "I did X
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I feel stoicism works reasonably well when your life goes generally well. If your life is going very badly, I think it ends up like a lot of positive thinking where you have to live in an almost delusional world where you pretend things are
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It's almost the same when you deal with billing departments in hospitals. They give you the runaround, "lose" things repeatedly, ignore you. The whole US health system is abusive but there is so much money flowing around that
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Government run is not the only alternative. We should start at standardizing and simplifying things. Less variations in insurance plans. Standard data exchange. Same pricing for same procedures. Price transparency. It doesn't make any
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
The profit margins are not the only thing. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of people working on billing jobs at doctors and insurances that shouldn’t exist.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
The whole system is infuriating. Even when you assume a free market is what you want, it's pretty clear that this is far away from a free market. Unless you view non-competitive monopolies as free market. I don't understand why ve
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I feel Intel is in a similar situation as IBM in the 90s when Gerstner came in. You don't necessarily need a super technical CEO but somebody who is forceful enough to see through his initiatives. Not sure if the new guy is that type t
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Microsoft side. It was pretty clear that they were evaluated by closing tickets quickly.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Reminds me of an issue I reported years ago to the super-special-premier support my company pays for. I never got to somebody who actually understood the issue but there were several managers who constantly tried to have meetings and close
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
They for sure will.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"Before that, they had a sugar daddy billionaire. Obviously, Arianespace doesn't have that." Ariane have ESA as sugardaddy. And SLS has NASA. Both are consuming more more money than SpaceX with less results. The main differen
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
And the opposing party is a bunch of losers.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think that's the plan. Damage institutions beyond repair.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I don 't think they are getting enough funding to really make it. There would be no SpaceX without massive NASA contracts.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think with the number of libraries today you can't really remember everything. It's just not possible anymore.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I would just wish that Europe worked on more ambitious designs. Ariane 6 was outdated years before its first flight.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
For me it works pretty well for python scripts that pull data from somewhere and do something with it. Even the code quality is quite ok often. But for larger complex projects it doesn't work for me. It produces a lot of unmaintainable
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
"You win some, you lose some." Then the MBAs come in, try to reduce the "lose some" with tightly managed processes and you slowly start losing the wins. A similar thing happened at my company. During summer they would le
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I think the idea of having a primary context menu that pushes less important stuff into the second menu was good and long needed. But it needs to be user customizable so you can control what you really want. Instead we have a primary menu w
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Exactly. If we spend the same percentage of GDP we spent on Apollo, moon bases, mars landings, fusion and others would happen quickly.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It shows the old that getting to 90% is easy and fast but the last 10% are very tedious and slow.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
How about opening Explorer windows in less than a second (or at least 5)? Or being able to customize the Explorer context menu. They were on the right track by pushing the old context menu into a separate second menu. But they should allow
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
It seems they really are taking inspiration from 1933 "Gleichschaltung". It looks like they want to control everything. Has any incoming administration ever made so many sweeping changes in such short time?
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
This is just nuts. Stuff like this is what made the US a leader. I bet next is to turn off GPS outside the US because no money. That's how you lose world leadership.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Exactly.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
The only conviction of these guys is money and power. They are not liberal or conservative, they go with whatever gives them an advantage at the time.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
I have this quite a bit when I fly home late at night.
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by rqtwteye 2y ago
Interesting. A while ago I looked at laptops and when I looked at Dell and Lenovo I couldn't figure out how to choose between all the models (dozens or probably hundreds). Ended up with a Framework laptop.

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